Pizza oven terminology can be a bit confusing. I recently mentioned that a couple new pizzerias had installed "mobile" wood-fired ovens. But mobile to wood-fired pizza geeks is something entirely different from what most folks might initially imagine.

Let's break things down with some easy-to-relate-to visuals. For a quick tour through some of the oven types you'll read about on Slice, I've taken the liberty of comparing them to different styles of housing.

For a truly useful guide to oven terminology, see Forno Bravo's glossary. For a goofy diversion, peep the slideshow here »